Police: Woman's death called homicide, 1 held

Staff report

Authorities are interviewing a person of interest after police responding to a battery found a woman dead of an apparent homicide in her Bronzeville neighborhood home this morning.

Katrina Rogers, 38, of the 5000 block of South Prairie Avenue, was dead on the scene at the bottom of a flight of stairs inside the building where she lived, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

She was found about 8:35 a.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

Officers initially were called to the Prairie address for a battery but found the woman unresponsive with multiple injuries to her body, said Officer Veejay Zala, a spokesman for the Chicago Police.

“It’s now a homicide investigation,’’ Zala said late this afternoon.

An autopsy is scheduled for Friday that will determine the cause and manner of her death, according to the medical examiner's office.

Area Central detectives are speaking to a person of interest but no charges have been filed as of 5 p.m., according to Zala.